Greece will hold general elections in April, the government said on Monday, hours after parliament voted through tough new austerity measures aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy.
“This government has one to one-and-a-half months left,” spokesperson Pantelis Kapsis told journalists. “We will finish up in March, and elections will be held in April.”
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, who formed a coalition government in November after the fall of George Papandreou’s socialist administration, had indicated that he did not intend to serve the full two years remaining of parliament’s mandate.
He said that his only aim was to negotiate the write down of part of Athens’ debt and ensure that it qualified for a new European bailout of €130bn.
(source: AFP)
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